Women at Work

22m

An introduction to the employment picture in Canada in the late 1950s, designed to inform potential immigrants of job opportunities existing for women. The film reviews many fields of work in which women are engaged, ranging from the highly specialized to the unskilled, and shows much of it being performed by women who have come to Canada from many different lands. Placement services and information services established to help newly arrived immigrants are shown in operation. Viewed from a modern perspective, the greater part of the film accepts as normal the waste of women's talents in repetitive or service jobs while elevating this work to the status of a career. Currently distributed only in 13-minute abridged form.

Cast

Crew

Gordon Sparling

Director, Editor, Producer

Grant Crabtree

Director of Photography

Nicholas Balla

Executive Producer

George Croll

Sound Re-Recording Assistant, Sound

Eldon Rathburn

Original Music Composer

Women at Work

Cast

Crew

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